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Quote by George Eliot
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. -

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. – George Eliot

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best
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George Eliot
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His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly. – George Eliot

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Patronize, Patronizing
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George Eliot
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didnt have a nose job and money and if you werent thin, you werent cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasnt pretty enough to be on television. – Lea Michele

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Beauty

I feel by posing for Playboy Ive discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever. – Heather Kozar

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Beauty

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about lifes sores the better. – Oscar Wilde

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Beauty

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? – Tony Kushner

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Beauty

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At home Ive got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour. – Thom Yorke

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If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. – Logan P. Smith

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Leisure

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor. – W. H. Auden

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Books

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. – John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980

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Nature